Get real-time information about UT Austin from seniors who have gone through the whole process
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Salil_Singh
This webinar session will be hosted by Shreya Trivedi, who completed her MS in Business Analytics from the University of Texas at Austin. She will volunteer an hour of her time to answer your queries. Prior to UT Austin, Shreya completed her BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. She has volunteered to work with organisations such as Savera Samajik Sansthan. Her internship was with Schlumberger and WorldQuant. After her Bachelors, she worked with Flipkart as Assistant Manager and after her masters, she worked with PwC. Currently, she is working as Senior Analyst at Aura, San Francisco Bay Area.
Here is how the Senior AMA works:
Ask Qs now: You can start asking your questions right away right here.
Answers via video: On Friday, September 27th, at 7 PM, Shreya will answer your Qs via a webinar, which you can join here.
Answers transcribed for future reference: We will transcribe Shreya’s answers and post them in response to your questions on this page.
Salil_Singh
Update:
Hi, all…
Unfortunately, our previous speaker Avinash was not available at the scheduled time. Hence, we have invited Shreya Trivedi to answer your queries.
Please post your queries here.
Ajaib
Hi there,
I have 2 admits, one from UT of A (Business Analytics)and second from Nortwestern’s Master’s in Analytics program.
Which one should I go for? Would love to know your opinion and the reasoning, if possible. I m more inclined towards Nortwestern…only thing that worries me is the overall cost of the program (Nortwestern is expensive than UT Austin)
Any suggestions?
Gagan
How much GPA should one sscore to be eligible for admissions to UT Austin?
Dhairya_Patel
Hi Shreya,
This is Dhairya. I wanted to know about the MS in industrial engineering program at UT Austin and what is it’s USP. Also, if you could throw light on securing TA and as well as what points to consider while making a SOP and applying to UT Austin.
If you could evaluate my profile and share your viewpoint , it would be great.
GRE :324(168-Quant , 156-verbal,AWA-4)
TOEFL-113
Btech in Mechanical engineering , Nirma University CGPA:9.04/10
Hemal_Shah
Hey Shreya,
I have below queries:
I have 3+ years of work exp, the webiste of UTA suggests to 2 academic LORs and 1 Professional LOR. Since you had 2 years of experience can you tell about your LOR pref and can you suggest if I should have 2 prof LORs and 1 Academic LOR.
Can you tell us what played a major factor for your selection in UTA, I mean if you could give relative weightage to GPA. GRE, TOEFL, Work Exp that played a major role in your selection.
Can you suggest advantage of doing MSBA from UTA as compared to similar courses offered by USC, Georgia Tech, CMU, Columbia, UMinn apart from Tuition fee factor. (Why UT Austin ? )
As you suggested that the course would be pretty hectic, can you suggest some particular online course (Edx/DataCamp/Coursera) for 1) R 2) Python 3) Statistics and Prob 4) Linear Algebra
Any specific college clubs related to Marketing Analytics you would suggest us to join.
Smruti_Govind
Hi Shreya,
Could you give some suggestions for writing a good SOP?
Thilina991
Hello Shreya,
Do you know anyone who studied MS or PhD Industrial Engineering at UTA ?
Do they have a cutoff for GRE scores ?
Thank you.
Shashank_Bhandari
Hi Shreya,
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences. I had one specific concern regarding MSBA which I was hoping you could shed some light on.
I’m concerned about the relatively short duration of the course at UTA in comparison to some of the other universities like CMU USC etc. The short duration of the course will directly impact the time that students have to find internships or jobs.
Could you please let me know the importance of the duration of the course and should that play a role in university selection?
Also what is the MSBA batch size at UTA?
Thank you so much for your response.
Hemal_Shah
Congratulations Ajaib ! Was curious to know if you applied for the Spring Admission.
raman1
How can one put their MS years to the best use to get good jobs abroad?
Sagar
My GRE score is 160 in quant and 136 in verbal. I got 65 % in Btech in CS. I want to study business analytics…can i get admission in a good US college?
Any tips to make my profile strong to increase my chances of getting admission in a US college.
Jithin
What is the scope of MS in Business Analytics? What are the popular job profiles and top companies should one apply for after finishing the degree
Smruti_Govind
Hi Shreya,
Are there any differences between new courses like MS in BA, Machine Learning and traditional courses like CS or Mechanical? Is it more difficult to get jobs if you take a non-traditional course?
And does ranking of colleges actually matter in getting a job? I heard from some people that ranking does not matter much in the US
Salil_Singh
Posting it on a student’s behalf
Is it necessary to have work experience for pursuing the course you studied?